[GitHub] indhub commented on a change in pull request #10900: [MXNET-414] Tutorial on visualizing CNN decisions using Grad-CAM

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indhub commented on a change in pull request #10900: [MXNET-414] Tutorial on visualizing CNN decisions using Grad-CAM
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/10900#discussion_r189122496
 
 

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+# Visualizing Decisions of Convolutional Neural Networks
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+Convolutional Neural Networks have made a lot of progress in Computer Vision. Their accuracy is as good as humans in some tasks. However it remains hard to explain the predictions of convolutional neural networks.
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+It is often helpful to be able to explain why a model made the prediction it made. For example when a model misclassifies an image, it is hard to say why without visualizing the network's decision.
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+<img align="right" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/example/cnn_visualization/volcano_barn_spider.png" alt="Explaining the misclassification of volcano as spider" width=500px/>
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+Visualizations also help build confidence about the predictions of a model. For example, even if a model correctly predicts birds as birds, we would want to confirm that the model bases its decision on the features of bird and not on the features of some other object that might occur together with birds in the dataset (like leaves).
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+In this tutorial, we show how to visualize the predictions made by convolutional neural networks using Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping. Unlike many other visualization methods, Grad-CAM can be used on a wide variety of CNN model families - CNNs with fully connected layers, CNNs used for structural outputs (e.g. captioning), CNNs used in tasks with multi-model input (e.g. VQA) or reinforcement learning without architectural changes or re-training.
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+In the rest of this notebook, we will explain how to visualize predictions made by [VGG-16](https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1556). We begin by importing the required dependencies. `gradcam` module contains the implementation of visualization techniques used in this notebook.
 
 Review comment:
   VGG is used for a couple of reasons:
   1. ResNet is too big to include in a notebook without spoiling easiness to read.
   2. VGG16 the network used in the original paper.

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